BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 16 (TNSJou) -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center issued the following news release: Based on the strength of clinical trial data showing the vaccines conferred robust protection against COVID-19, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to the mRNA-based vaccines known as BNT162b2 (BioNTech, Pfizer) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna) in December 2020, and to the Ad26.COV2.S (Johnson & Johnson) single-shot vaccine in February 2021. To date, near  more

PORTLAND, Maine, Oct. 9 (TNSPol) -- Environment Maine issued the following statement on Oct. 7, 2021, by State Director Anya Fetcher: * * * President Joe Biden is expected to restore protections Friday for three national monuments. The original protections for the U.S. Atlantic's only marine monument, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, will be reinstated after being stripped during the Trump administration. The President is also expected to restore the original boundaries for two Utah areas,  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 9 (TNSPol) -- Environment Massachusetts issued the following statement on Oct. 7, 2021, by State Director Ben Hellerstein: * * * President Joe Biden is expected to restore protections today for three national monuments, including the U.S. Atlantic's only marine monument, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts. These protections will be reinstated after being stripped during the Trump administration. The President is also expected to restore the original boundaries for  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2021: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in partnership with iHeartMedia Boston, today announced it has completed an important emergency radio broadcast facility modernization project at iHeartMedia's WBZ NewsRadio 1030 in Boston to improve critical alert and warning capabilities when disasters threaten public safety. The WB  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (TNSPol) -- The National Trust for Historic Preservation issued the following news release on Oct. 8, 2021: President Joseph Biden issued an Executive Proclamation restoring Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante in southeast Utah and Northeast Canyon and Seamounts Marine National Monument on the New England coast. The protection of Bears Ears National Monument has been one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's top priorities for the past decade.   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (TNSPol) -- The Natural Resources Defense Council issued the following statement on Oct. 8, 2021, by President and CEO Manish Bapna: * * * President Biden will sign proclamations today that will begin restoring protections to two treasured national monuments in Utah, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante, along with a spectacular marine monument off the coast of New England, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts. His orders return these three monuments to their pre-Trump pr  more

CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 16 -- Rural History, a journal that says it features agricultural history, historical ecology, folklore, popular culture and religion, rural literature, landscape history, archaeology and material culture, vernacular architecture, ethnography, anthropology and rural sociology, study of women in rural societies, relationships between the urban and the rural and the politics of rural societies, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2021 edition  more

SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 9 (TNSJou) -- The University of Washington's School of Medicine issued the following news release on Oct. 8, 2021: High-income nations should heed the World Health Organization's calls to delay COVID-19 vaccine boosters until 10% of people in every country are vaccinated, two bioethicists say in a paper published today. "We maintain that offering boosters to people in wealthy countries takes humanity down the wrong path. It places everyone, vaccinated or not, at great  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following remarks on Oct. 12, 2021, by Administrator Samantha Power at the swearing-in ceremony of Paloma Adams-Allen, deputy administrator for management and resources: * * * ADMINISTRATOR POWER: Hello everybody. I am so happy to get to do this here today, and be able to welcome Paloma and her family to the agency. Thanks to all of you for tuning in. And Mark, you have just done such a tremendous job as Principal   more